Improvement in g-ame-cottnter



E, SCHELLHORN.

Game Counter.

Patented Fee. 9, 1869.

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E. SCHELLHORN, OF URBANA, OHIO. Letters Patent No. 86,781, datedFebruary 9, 1869; (tn-tainted February 1, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

Be it known that I, E. SCHELLHORN, of Urbana, in the county ofOha-mpztign, and State of Ohio, have inventede new and usefulImprovement on a Machine for Keeping Count for the Game of Billiards;and I do hereby declare that the following is a, full, clear, and exactdescription of the construction and operation of the some, referencebeing bad to the annexed drawings, making it part of this Specification,in which- Figure 1 is it pla-n Vl6W,2tI1(l Figures 2, 3, and tare thedetached parts of the same.

Fig. 1 represents a pair of counters, mounted upon a gas-pipe, whoseopposite sides are the same. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are the sevem-l partscomposing the whole.

The nine digits are placed upon the outer shell S. in the order in whichthey are. shown, and the numbers, 10, 20, and so on, up to 100, areplaced upon the ring G G, into whose notched periphery pawl H H (whichhinges upon lever B) is kept by spring I.

O and H are holes through shell H, through which the figures are seenthat indicate the progress of the game.

At F, in fig. 4, is a. smell pin, made fast to ring G G, whose (Alice isto turn wheel K one-fourth of a revolution while it passes through it,bringing into view one of the foinfigures on its sections, at hole 0,spring E holding wheel K where pin F leaves it.

I where left.

Lever A, as seen at fig. 3. has an enlarged circular end, revolving onat pin at its centre, one-half of whose periphery is notched, into whichspring G presses.

Now, the process of counting is as follows:

\Vhcn any number less than ten is made, lever A. is moved around untilits central swell covers the figure denoting the amount made, as seen inthe dotted lines, where the lever covers figure 7, spring G holding itAnd when ton is made, lever B is moved in the direction of the arrow,down to the stop at I I, pawl H H carrying ring G G just fur enough tobring number 10 immediately under hole H; thus, by continuing theprocess, every number, from 10 to W0, is brought under hole H, pin 1*,on ring G G, moving wheel K, denoting the number of games ofone hundredplayed, by bringing such number into view at hole 0.

\Vha-t I claim as my invention, znnl desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The combination of levers A B, ring G G, pawl H H, spring 1, wheel K,zmd spring IS, with shell S, the whole substantially as described, andfor the purposes set forth,

E. SOHELLHORN.

\Vitnes ses S. MILLER, O. H. CASTLE.

